Climb in your time machine and go back 30 years or so and look up General Magic. They had ambitions of developing an ecosystem where their device could be a self-directing agent on the owner's behalf - scouring the network (wasn't really The Internet quite yet) and find things, like concert tickets and restaurant reservations, and book them for you.

It was way too early for such ambitious ideas.

(Don't comment that I don't know what I'm talking about. I was there - collaborating with Marc Porat - in the early days).

Steam does a great job of managing installation and syncing across devices.

As a user it makes the game experience so much nicer than selling me a download of a game.

I've never had issues getting games from steam to run (assuming my computer was capable), even old ones. For most games my saves exist across all my devices, and I can easily uninstall a game for space and install it again later.

Steam also provides a forum for discussion with other users, guides, and game news.

It's significantly more than a store front and your new store of curated games would be a hard sell for me vs just following a few reviewers.

Steam also has the advantage of big data to give me recommendations.

I'm all for curated stores in general (and use them even), but Steam offers more than just a store front, it'd be hard to break into.

I'm lazy too, steam already has all my games, I don't want a second launcher to browse and run my games from.

I assume they mean a 10x jump is outpacing Moore's law.

I would bet though that it'll take long enough to commercialize that it will fall right in place with Moore's law.

But the last guy that tried this had everyone think they were a fool.

So the games with the root kits flop?

I don't see much resistance to them in the gaming community at all. A little bit of whining.

That makes the assumption there'd be a Ukraine at all.

It would have upped the pressure for Russia to take Ukraine before they got the nukes working.

Maybe Russia was too much a mess to do it by that time, maybe not.

They'll just make a kernel stub and an installer like Nvidia did (probably still does?).

Of Linux becomes popular for games due to the performance bump there's no reason to think gamer will be any more resistant to rootkits on it.

He's out here legit saying he wants his company to be 3% of the US economy.

This is crazy.

Unless the pay can buy me retirement in 3 -5 years.

When I was younger maybe 5-10 years.

I have to imagine it eventually kills productivity though.

Sometimes it's the relaxed brain that comes up with moments of insight when least expected (like in the shower for example).

Like definitely bursts like that for a project that's gripping, but, for myself at least, I'm going to hit a brick wall eventually and step back for a few days, see the problem fresh.

Even if the young folks, it can't be sustainable.

You can. With a browser plugin called "Short Stop".

Also, the failure mode should probably be "bed" and not 110 degrees and upright.

Given that the outage was claimed to be in Eastern US, why did I suffer multiple service outages in Idaho?

Oh, and by the way - one of the services I lost was Amazon shopping :-)

Regional my ass...

I was just guessing, not accusing...

I went to a pretty big school that segregated kids into 3 or 4 tiers depend on the subject. I took one of the bottom tier courses and it was absolutely wild to me compared to what I thought was a disrupted class in the I upper two.

It was a mixed income school, but large enough to segregate to an honestly pretty disturbing level.

I'm class of '99 for timeline.